STRUNG UP BY THE WRISTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 59, 4 December 1918, Page 8

STRUNG UP BY THE WRISTS

■- ♦ GERMAN BRUTALITY. Private R. J. Poole, of Latroba (Tasnunia), who has returned r'rmn tho front, tells a terrible story of Hun brutalitv Ho was titken prisoner, and during the first week ho spent in German hospital five out of tho 48 who entered with Aim died of starvation. The only food that was offered them was a little coarse bread and a- small piece of sausage or a piece of pickled tish, half raw. One of the men was unable to eat the fish, and it was taken away and biousjht back to him next day. This was 'repeated for several days, and en the seventh day he died of starvation.

"A sentry, who was not even a noncom.," said Privitc Poolo, "wanted me to salute him. I refused, and lin hnne me up by the wrists with my feet off the ground, and placed a bowl of souii at my feet witli (Tin vimv of nddimj hi the torture. I was left hanging there from 9.30 a.m. till 5 p.m.. and was then takon down and confined in the barracks for the. night. Next morning I was again strung up, but was taken down at 3 p.m. All the food I. had during thai time was a bowl of soup, which had been placed within my sjjflir earlier in (ho day. Had it not heen for the nareels we received from tho Central War Committeo from the Order of St. John we could never have lived through it."